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To: Ilaine who wrote (66340)	2/11/2001 6:03:56 PM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

These Californians deserve a little tough love. I'm amazing at how stupid they can be as a whole. As they say, a person is smart, but people are stupid. I hope the Util's give them what they're daring them to do: Polls show that nearly 60 percent of California voters believe the power shortages that have led to blackouts twice this year are mostly a ploy by energy companies to raise rates. One survey by the independent Field Poll had this striking finding: Nearly two-thirds of California residents preferred an occasional blackout to higher electricity costs... Some residents took to the streets and held candlelight vigils to demand relief. Others staged a public burning of their bills. Consumer groups aired radio and television ads urging residents to pay only what they considered a fair price for electricity and dared the utilities to resort to widespread power cutoffs. washingtonpost.com